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john boehner was coming in as speaker. the bank terminus announces in the -- advances in the senate. people were starting to write off the obama president the bush presidency after what seemed to be a promising start. i was lucky enough to talk to people in the white house, obama's inner circle, and sort of chronicle what came after that. in the lame-duck session, then the very up and down year we had in 2011 with the budget fight and the debt ceiling fights, but of course things like egypt, libya, bin laden raid, which i think set up the campaign. this is sort of a pre-campaign book in ways that examines the with the president was thinking and how he was seeing his own presidency and how he was seeing things as he was trying to tee up is very decisive 2012 election. host: the book "showdown." you brought that bill clinton. this morning, the was a biography back in the 1990's, has the roots of two presidents, born on august 15 years apart at opposite ends of the baby boom generation. bill clinton in 1946. barack obama, 196
john boehner was coming in as speaker. the bank terminus announces in the -- advances in the senate. people were starting to write off the obama president the bush presidency after what seemed to be a promising start. i was lucky enough to talk to people in the white house, obama's inner circle, and sort of chronicle what came after that. in the lame-duck session, then the very up and down year we had in 2011 with the budget fight and the debt ceiling fights, but of course things like egypt,...
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boehner's tone was good. but as i said, when you look inside and say, well, we can rely on dynamic scoring or lowering rates significantly and closing loopholes, when you begin to dissect that, it has some problems. but i am hopeful that with the business community's help and with the president's leadership, we can bring republicans around. because i think in his heart speaker boehner wants to get something done. >> alan? >> you talked about -- [inaudible] do you have a strategy on -- [inaudible] are you trying to do that -- [inaudible] >> let me say on the general thrust of your question, i think most of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle would say the senate needs to be fixed, that there are some real things wrong with it in the way it functions. there are going to be a lot of discussions over the next few weeks about that, but i'm not going to comment on any specifics until we have those discussions with our colleagues. and it needs to be done not just for one particular issue, but in general to get
boehner's tone was good. but as i said, when you look inside and say, well, we can rely on dynamic scoring or lowering rates significantly and closing loopholes, when you begin to dissect that, it has some problems. but i am hopeful that with the business community's help and with the president's leadership, we can bring republicans around. because i think in his heart speaker boehner wants to get something done. >> alan? >> you talked about -- [inaudible] do you have a strategy on...
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in other words, boehner would have a merlot, and obama would chew nicorette. >> you point outside in the book somehow when they took the official photo, both of those vanished. >> yes. they had iced tea there for obama. of course, boehner had his seg represent, and they put the cigarette in the ashtray away for the picture, but they have not closed the deal on the personal relations, and that's a shame. i think if somebody, instead of sponsoring your breakfast and all, sponsor a weekly dinner between obama and boehner and everyone would agree to pay for it and let them just talk and get to know each other and see, you know, it's -- >> how much -- >> oh, that's right. what do you think? >> i think that's a great idea. [inaudible] a special room. >> i'm not sure -- [inaudible] >> yeah, okay, but, well, you know, but, i, you know, personal relationships, when john was the fbi spokensman, he was not helpful, but you could talk to him, get him on the phone, and if you had a good story, he'd confirm it by laughing, a deep laugh meant you were on the right track. no laughter meant no. [laug
in other words, boehner would have a merlot, and obama would chew nicorette. >> you point outside in the book somehow when they took the official photo, both of those vanished. >> yes. they had iced tea there for obama. of course, boehner had his seg represent, and they put the cigarette in the ashtray away for the picture, but they have not closed the deal on the personal relations, and that's a shame. i think if somebody, instead of sponsoring your breakfast and all, sponsor a...
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he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track. it is a very dramatic story, and it brings to the fore the issues that we're going to be dealing with in three or four months. yes. >> you may have already allude today this somewhat in answering a previous question, but, you know, congressional approval is at record lows, and people left, right, center, everywhere talk about how broken government is. and what are those things there your perspective that have broken it, and what are those things that if they were removed either individual or structural, um, that would help fix it? what's the path forward? >> you know, that's abov
he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track....
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john boehner will say what he wants. not going to raise taxes at the reagan building a few blocks from where you guys are broadcasting from comments that is not going to raise taxes. at the end of the day is a cluster at this point. our senate reporter been talking about this. republicans lost a great deal of leverage. john boehner, whose goal is to get to a point where tax reform could have been. how because there is unclear at this point, but republicans have lost the upper hand in an extraordinary leverage of capital tonight. >> thank you, jacob will hopefully put together a show or we can bring you in to see what's really going to happen on the fiscal cliff and what we can make the new democratic majority in the senate, republican majority. how the new members on both sides fit in. there's so much to interpret in the next 24 hours. no better place to go than "politico." he got 100 editors who break the stuff in the high and mighty what does this mean about the country in this moment to the nitty-gritty of what it mea
john boehner will say what he wants. not going to raise taxes at the reagan building a few blocks from where you guys are broadcasting from comments that is not going to raise taxes. at the end of the day is a cluster at this point. our senate reporter been talking about this. republicans lost a great deal of leverage. john boehner, whose goal is to get to a point where tax reform could have been. how because there is unclear at this point, but republicans have lost the upper hand in an...
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please help me in welcoming congressman john boehner. [applause] >> the good morning everybody. >> thank you. i would begin by thanking all of you for what you do in the communities in which to live and when you do to help get the american economy going again. you're not going to hear this much in washington, because most people in washington have never had the real job and don't really understand that you have to risk your life savings and risk capital, take out loans at the start of business, hi your employees to buy e equipment, and hoping that you will find the customer, hoping that you will find some business. most people in washington don't understand the risk that's involved. and when you do to help grow the american economy. but as one who took the same kind of risk that all of you that i want to say thanks for what you do for the country and when you do for the communities in which to operate your business this. listen, as you know, i came here as a small-business guy. i came here to slide for a smaller, less costly and more acc
please help me in welcoming congressman john boehner. [applause] >> the good morning everybody. >> thank you. i would begin by thanking all of you for what you do in the communities in which to live and when you do to help get the american economy going again. you're not going to hear this much in washington, because most people in washington have never had the real job and don't really understand that you have to risk your life savings and risk capital, take out loans at the start...
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but the tea pert and people like allen west wouldn't let boehner make a deal. every was on at the table but the tea party wouldn't let it happen. now we have see sequestration. looming cults at the end of the year that our economy cannot sustain. it's because of the extremism that we couldn't reach those compromises. >> the see sequestration what probe's -- president president s idea. >> you voted for it. >> and guess what? i also brought legislation to the house floor to stave off the sequestration for a year or two years. i'm taking action. >> we're talking about pending cuts and social programs, before the end of the year, jonathan, good point to hop off to medicare and health care. jonathan, your question, i believe, goes to mr. murphy for one minute. insure... murphy: sure, that is the kaiser family foundation study that you are referring to that said that under the plan, 60% of seniors are going to face cost increases. so, this is something that needs to be addressed when people are looking at the plan and what happened here. under the ryan plan that my o
but the tea pert and people like allen west wouldn't let boehner make a deal. every was on at the table but the tea party wouldn't let it happen. now we have see sequestration. looming cults at the end of the year that our economy cannot sustain. it's because of the extremism that we couldn't reach those compromises. >> the see sequestration what probe's -- president president s idea. >> you voted for it. >> and guess what? i also brought legislation to the house floor to...
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speaker boehner did see that too. he saw the debt ceiling is a moment in which they could extract a germanic concession from the demand democratic. he played the tea party freshman as a bargaining chip. there were examples of him explicitly saying that i have a bunch of hot leather guys over there. they're going to let him default, and if you really want us to vote for this, you have to give us some things. now, this was explicit or invited talks with eric cantor. during the by the talks, when they're discussing revenue increases, kantor says that that is not something that we are prepared to do at all. then vice president biden says what do we get out of it and eric cantor says you have to vote on the debt ceiling. i know that might not sound like much, but the fact is we have a lot of members who feel like failing to raise the debt ceiling is exactly what we need. then kantor says, we are working to educate our guys. >> eric from pennsylvania. please go ahead with your question or comment for robert draper. caller:
speaker boehner did see that too. he saw the debt ceiling is a moment in which they could extract a germanic concession from the demand democratic. he played the tea party freshman as a bargaining chip. there were examples of him explicitly saying that i have a bunch of hot leather guys over there. they're going to let him default, and if you really want us to vote for this, you have to give us some things. now, this was explicit or invited talks with eric cantor. during the by the talks, when...
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boehner now comes closer to resembling a moderate republican than anybody who
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talk to john boehner and see what he agreed to. there would be no logical appropriations process with respect to these issues. >> banks. i was wondering who would be among the first of the cabinet secretaries that will be asked to leave the administration. [laughter] >> i will defer to my democratic colleagues. i have some nominations. i don't know what the plan is. usually in most administrations, people kind of offer their resignation and let the president figure out if there's any of them they really got to hang onto. my sense is a lot of the folks have already said they are leaving, so that probably will take place. but that's all i know. >> just to follow-up on that note, given the fiscal cliff and everything going on in the certainty, is there a need to provide some clarity at least on a treasury secretary appointment sooner rather than later. [inaudible] >> how soon, though? >> tomorrow. >> the markets kind of out right now. >> you have to remember the market will now understand on washington you cannot count on washington f
talk to john boehner and see what he agreed to. there would be no logical appropriations process with respect to these issues. >> banks. i was wondering who would be among the first of the cabinet secretaries that will be asked to leave the administration. [laughter] >> i will defer to my democratic colleagues. i have some nominations. i don't know what the plan is. usually in most administrations, people kind of offer their resignation and let the president figure out if there's...
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that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work together to find that common ground. my guess is that romney did not receive that statement with great enthusiasm and eagerness. he was going through his own period according but after running a campaign that was built around the idea, i will find a common ground and i can reach a common ground obama calls the minutes as says we really need this. we are about to go off the fiscal cliff. would you help me build support for this deal that will have the support of the business community and a supermajority in the senate in a bipartisan way. th
that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work...
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he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track. it is a very dramatic story, and it brings to the fore the issues that we're going to be dealing with in three or four months. yes. >> you may have already allude today this somewhat in answering a previous question, but, you know, congressional approval is at record lows, and people left, right, center, everywhere talk about how broken government is. and what are those things there your perspective that have broken it, and what are those things that if they were removed either individual or structural, um, that would help fix it? what's the path forward? >> you know, that's abov
he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track....
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boehner was not. he took note of the wave and he could either be crushed by you or surface and so if he did, to the point he became speaker of the house for the minority leader of the freshmen are well aware that he is not of that movement and that tension has also been present throughout the legislative session. >> host: we are talking with robert draper, this is his newest book what we do in the u.s. house of representatives talking about 112 congress. the numbers are on the screen. mr. draper what is the number about alan west plays in the congress? >> guest: equal opportunity offender. west is without question the most famous of the 87 freshmen. he was a tea party sensation before he was every elected because in 2009 he gave his so-called bayonet speech in which he exhorted his audience to pick up their bayonets and charge the enemy to victory. but i say equal opportunity offender because even though he is very much a tea party freshman, i should mention he's from the fort lauderdale florida area.
boehner was not. he took note of the wave and he could either be crushed by you or surface and so if he did, to the point he became speaker of the house for the minority leader of the freshmen are well aware that he is not of that movement and that tension has also been present throughout the legislative session. >> host: we are talking with robert draper, this is his newest book what we do in the u.s. house of representatives talking about 112 congress. the numbers are on the screen. mr....
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. >> are you suggesting that nancy -- nancy pelosi and john boehner don't do that? [applause] >> they don't really socialize. one reason that joe might work together, i knew joe and i love him. i wouldn't do anything mean to joe. so that is a lot of it. the times have changed so much. in the senate, one of the problems as they got away from regular order. you send a bill to a committee. you have an oversight hearing, you have an amendment coming u-boat, you go to the full committee and the house and then you go to conference. but they wound up getting a transportation bill. it's a combination of things. modern technology, frankly it is a 24/7 news media. it is the fact that the members leave their families back home. you can't be a good legislator two and half days a week. you have to work at it. the combination of those things, it contributed to the partisanship and the gridlock that we have now. the answer is simple. it is called leadership. men and women of goodwill, conservative liberals, republicans, and the president -- they say it is an easy and we have to ge
. >> are you suggesting that nancy -- nancy pelosi and john boehner don't do that? [applause] >> they don't really socialize. one reason that joe might work together, i knew joe and i love him. i wouldn't do anything mean to joe. so that is a lot of it. the times have changed so much. in the senate, one of the problems as they got away from regular order. you send a bill to a committee. you have an oversight hearing, you have an amendment coming u-boat, you go to the full committee...
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now, again, our friends in the house, the republican-led house under speaker boehner have during the two years of their stewardship brought budget resolutions to the floor, passed them, sent them over here only to be ignored. now, the president has submitted budgets. didn't get a single haute in the house of representatives, didn't get a single vote when we called it up as sort of a test vote here in the senate, but this senate under the leadership of the democratic majority has not followed the statute. it says you bring a budget resolution up every year, haven't done it. we're into our fourth year now. but the senator and i were talking, and i'll toss it to him on this. beyond that, they don't have a budget deficit reduction plan. it's one thing to have a resolution that could say anything, but what the american people need, what our future generations are crying out for is a plan to reduce this debt, and i look forward and hope to see the day when my friend from alabama is chairman of the senate budget committee, and i would just ask him to assure everyone within the sound of our
now, again, our friends in the house, the republican-led house under speaker boehner have during the two years of their stewardship brought budget resolutions to the floor, passed them, sent them over here only to be ignored. now, the president has submitted budgets. didn't get a single haute in the house of representatives, didn't get a single vote when we called it up as sort of a test vote here in the senate, but this senate under the leadership of the democratic majority has not followed...
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in the case of boehner, suspect he would mind. he will feel he is obliged to cut a deal with a bomb and 2013 if romney has lost. but i think people say bipartisanship come up with various leadership negotiation. the other is picking off the members against the wishes of leadership. >> the premise of both of those is there has to be personal relationships. the ambassador pointed out well that governor romney will have those talents. president obama knows he has them. you just going out to not not demonstrate them and be more engaged. >> and so, the reality is this spirit we are a few short weeks away from the real work starting. i think bill had it right on and i totally agree. i think there will be a moment of clarity. we will all wake up the next morning and some will be happy, some will be sad. and then the expectations will be there. we got to move. people will think differently about this interregnum between november and january because the fiscal cliff in the reality of a downgrade, and s&p downgraded the impact on the market
in the case of boehner, suspect he would mind. he will feel he is obliged to cut a deal with a bomb and 2013 if romney has lost. but i think people say bipartisanship come up with various leadership negotiation. the other is picking off the members against the wishes of leadership. >> the premise of both of those is there has to be personal relationships. the ambassador pointed out well that governor romney will have those talents. president obama knows he has them. you just going out to...
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head of congress and appeal directly to their constituents including mcconnell's constituents and john boehner's constituents in their own district? >> the first question i blanked on it, why focus on health care instead of jobs? there's this -- oprah asked him that question. why did you start out with health care instead of jobs? the first thing we did was the recovery act. rahm emanuel would joke one of the dumbest thing they did was succeed too quickly. they pass the recovery act in three weeks. if it had taken six months it would have looked like he was focusing on jobs but instead he got this thing done and then it was on to the auto bailout which was about jobs but he got that done fast and health care was next in line. certainly health care was politically difficult. it is not clear if he had been talking about jobs it would have been a lot better. the fundamental problem was he just passed the jobs bill and jobs were disappearing. if he had been out there saying we need more stimulus people would have said you just passed stimulus and it didn't work which they said anyway. he got more st
head of congress and appeal directly to their constituents including mcconnell's constituents and john boehner's constituents in their own district? >> the first question i blanked on it, why focus on health care instead of jobs? there's this -- oprah asked him that question. why did you start out with health care instead of jobs? the first thing we did was the recovery act. rahm emanuel would joke one of the dumbest thing they did was succeed too quickly. they pass the recovery act in...
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and boehner was able to persuade them, don't touch it. and so it was democrat own corrupt mess that didn't work. at 20 republicans, can i get something from a district just a little thing and i vote for? then it would've been a bipartisan mess in 2010 and never happened. i think boehner and mitch mcconnell understand as you go into 2014, 2016 and the rest of the republic's life, if the republican party is apart from obama's -- it succeeds. if you hug him and join and do bad things, that's unlikely to work. >> is there a loophole in the pledge? if we go off the cliff at the end of the or, if all the bush tax cuts expire, if everybody's taxes go up and then republicans vote to eliminate taxes on everyone, or to reinstate the bush tax cuts for everyone except for the various -- they're all voting for a tax cut, right? >> here's the challenge, and this has been what harry reid doesn't get to the pledges not to make. the pledges to the people of the state and the american people. so if your congressman percentage can go back and say 20 differe
and boehner was able to persuade them, don't touch it. and so it was democrat own corrupt mess that didn't work. at 20 republicans, can i get something from a district just a little thing and i vote for? then it would've been a bipartisan mess in 2010 and never happened. i think boehner and mitch mcconnell understand as you go into 2014, 2016 and the rest of the republic's life, if the republican party is apart from obama's -- it succeeds. if you hug him and join and do bad things, that's...
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house speaker john boehner and senator rob portman spoke today to meeting in the constructerrers. both republican discussed the tax policy. speaker boehner criticized the middle cut tax bill and they plan to vote at end of the month to extent all of the current tax rates. this is 40 minutes. [applause] thank you, greg. i would now like to introduce our first speaker. the honorable rob portman. mr. portman is the junior u.s. senator from ohio. he was elected in 2010 after lunging a campaign focused on conservative values and raining reigning in overzealous spending in washington. he represented the second district in the house for over a decade before serving in cabinet level post in the united states trade represent and directer of the office of management budget. he was one of three senate republicans amounted appointed too late committee on deficit reduction. born and raised in small business family, senator portman has been fighting for pro-growth, projobs policy, to help get ohio and our nation back on track. please help me in welcoming senator rob portman. [applause] eric tha
house speaker john boehner and senator rob portman spoke today to meeting in the constructerrers. both republican discussed the tax policy. speaker boehner criticized the middle cut tax bill and they plan to vote at end of the month to extent all of the current tax rates. this is 40 minutes. [applause] thank you, greg. i would now like to introduce our first speaker. the honorable rob portman. mr. portman is the junior u.s. senator from ohio. he was elected in 2010 after lunging a campaign...
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and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that the bill was posted and it is extraordinary that it says 1:23 a.m. because the rules committee sees the schedule and how they function but they give you to the minute the time the bill was posted and that is a demonstration that they are saying we are here for you to judge us and to know how long the bill is online and it was a response to political pressure and coming up with a better way for things to work and recognize electronic documents are a function of the official version of the house rules. wasn't everything we wanted. the rallying cry was 72 ho
and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that...
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john boehner didn't vote that way and it didn't pass. buerkle: what tranter does is distort my record because he is unwilling to talk about the real record. rozum: we know that they could raise $1.2 trillion. but we are not hearing from from ann marie buerkle or dan maffei is how they plan on raising money to cover the deficit. dan's plan covers 5% of the deficit. so they have to tell us what programs are they going to cut, or do they plan on running deficits. >> moderator: you get another 30 seconds. maffei: the facts are 70% and actually about 81% of what the president was raising. >> moderator: that's why we're all here. let's talk about simpson-bowles and the bipartisan commission that we put together. they started this thing in great detail. the debt and deficit. he came up with a plan to reduce it. among other things, it would simplify and lower tax rates across the board. but it would also limit some very popular deductions to bring in more revenue. mortgage interest deductions and health care deductions as well. those that we all
john boehner didn't vote that way and it didn't pass. buerkle: what tranter does is distort my record because he is unwilling to talk about the real record. rozum: we know that they could raise $1.2 trillion. but we are not hearing from from ann marie buerkle or dan maffei is how they plan on raising money to cover the deficit. dan's plan covers 5% of the deficit. so they have to tell us what programs are they going to cut, or do they plan on running deficits. >> moderator: you get...
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. >> we hod john boehner tell us that he -- he said i never read those platforms. they don't -- this is after the convention -- i don't read them. get it all on one page. he said nobody reads the platform. >> he didn't realize, we did. >> what can we look for the next two weeks between now and election day? what are your anticipations. >> fasten your seatbelt. >> i think you've seen the silly rhetoric we're going to get for the next two weeks, but more than that, what you're not seeing is what is going on,. , and that is the get out the vote effort, and they're doing some done both campaigns are doing something that i don't understand. the 14-year-olds who can talk to the entire world with a tweet and this way of having them all tajh to their friend on the social network, and there's a lot of this going out there that is just not obvious to the cameras' eye, and that's where this election is right now. this is about -- to me this has always been a bay's lex. this is -- base election. who is more excited. president obama had a storybook turnout, election team and sy
. >> we hod john boehner tell us that he -- he said i never read those platforms. they don't -- this is after the convention -- i don't read them. get it all on one page. he said nobody reads the platform. >> he didn't realize, we did. >> what can we look for the next two weeks between now and election day? what are your anticipations. >> fasten your seatbelt. >> i think you've seen the silly rhetoric we're going to get for the next two weeks, but more than that,...
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boehner comes closer to resembling a moderate republican than anybody who might replace him. i think if the white house and the obama and anxious l rod and those guys are to be believed they seem to think there is a chance for rhi
boehner comes closer to resembling a moderate republican than anybody who might replace him. i think if the white house and the obama and anxious l rod and those guys are to be believed they seem to think there is a chance for rhi
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>> for one 11 thing boehner is an even tempered so is boehner. unless the moment is absolutely right you tend not to be able to get ahead by declaring. >> the there is a -- between cancer and boehner. >> working more or less in the middle is the majority whip kevin mccarthy. mccarthy has, he has only been in for three terms and so in a lot of ways he is a freshman himself and he recruited a number of the freshman and became an away sort of the big brother to them. it was a very clever move on mccarthy's part because the freshman many times they have behaved and then the straw that has stirred the drink of the 112th congress. anybody who knows they are whims and their sentiment, kevin mccarthy. mccarthy and cantor are very close. day or two in the troika of the young guns. the third is a guy you may have heard of from wisconsin paul ryan, romney's running mate and they sort of represent the youth movement and there are a lot of people and boehner in boehner's world who don't trust mccarthy because he is very close to cantor. this is the kind of th
>> for one 11 thing boehner is an even tempered so is boehner. unless the moment is absolutely right you tend not to be able to get ahead by declaring. >> the there is a -- between cancer and boehner. >> working more or less in the middle is the majority whip kevin mccarthy. mccarthy has, he has only been in for three terms and so in a lot of ways he is a freshman himself and he recruited a number of the freshman and became an away sort of the big brother to them. it was a...
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i hope speaker boehner and soon to be majority leader sit down with romney and agree. they have 100 days in 100 days they have to reform medicare. they have to reform social security, they have to get spending under control and can't do it like business as usual. they will be templed to do that. that's what republicans do as they hold meetings. and they think about it for a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform. demanding have to rebuild the military. get the 313 chips. restore the terrible cuts the president is putting in place. they have a lot to do. if they do it democrats will scream, the media will scream and the american people will be applaud. they will be rewarded with a long period in time. they'll go home. felon had the same problem. he made the same kind of promises he has to live up to the reform that barack obama maid. i'm hoping when we gather here a year from now we'll have a set of promises delivered upon and maybe a new book. now one last thing, [laughter] i said they're going to spend $2 billi
i hope speaker boehner and soon to be majority leader sit down with romney and agree. they have 100 days in 100 days they have to reform medicare. they have to reform social security, they have to get spending under control and can't do it like business as usual. they will be templed to do that. that's what republicans do as they hold meetings. and they think about it for a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform. demanding have to...
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but first to john boehner. >> in any event, i have a good reporter would speaker boehner when he was minority leader and i was speaker. it is not the personality thing. it's a policy thing. that is where we had our disagreement. if any one of our attendees today. you are right, dear leaders come as so many of them in what they do. the u.s. first woman editor of "time" magazine is very impressive. don't you think? [applause] run for congress, democratic or republican. they want me to do this. they said in a necklace was hitting the mic. guys don't have that problem. [laughter] they don't have a jewelry problem. say you wanted to run for congress. iran 25 years ago. you don't say about to run for congress so i can go there and be a street fighter. now, you say you are calling her to honor the oath about face, take the constitution of the united states to recognize that people are sent there from all over the country with different points of view, philosophically, geographically, generationally, whatever it is and that you hope to affect the decision that i made and that is pretty much
but first to john boehner. >> in any event, i have a good reporter would speaker boehner when he was minority leader and i was speaker. it is not the personality thing. it's a policy thing. that is where we had our disagreement. if any one of our attendees today. you are right, dear leaders come as so many of them in what they do. the u.s. first woman editor of "time" magazine is very impressive. don't you think? [applause] run for congress, democratic or republican. they want...
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characteristic uninsured and beginning the speaker boehner. >> john boehner is a washington my friend was not obvious choice to leave the tea party class. nonetheless he could be the tea party phenomenon for the freight train that was then elected to be on the train rather than underneath it. speaker boehner campaigned heavily for tea party freshman and also believes this present at republicans and indeed america with the great opportunity. his believe, for example, was this would be a perfect recipe for entitlement reform. if you're going after entitlement reform ideally to have bipartisanship and specifically democratic president so they couldn't walk away from it. so he believed he could leverage the deep conservatives and that the tea party into action. but he failed to do so. the tea party freshman at time i spent a great deal of time and i spent time with an awful lot of them, like him personally, found an admiral and a genial ceo. this certainly not as their real leader. that has been implicitly cleared throughout the 112 congress. eric cantor, the majority leader is a bit diff
characteristic uninsured and beginning the speaker boehner. >> john boehner is a washington my friend was not obvious choice to leave the tea party class. nonetheless he could be the tea party phenomenon for the freight train that was then elected to be on the train rather than underneath it. speaker boehner campaigned heavily for tea party freshman and also believes this present at republicans and indeed america with the great opportunity. his believe, for example, was this would be a...
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can you comment on any sort of moderate organization to help boehner in the house? >> well, norm mentioned earlier the, you know, a couple moderates that got elected, but the number of -- what were there, 44 or something blue dog, and rahm emanuel did a brilliant job of recruiting many house, purportedly moderate democrats who were elect inside 2006 and 2008. they're almost all gone. and, you know, the rules of the house tend to give control to the leadership of the majority party as long as it has a sufficient majority and cohesiveness within its caucus or conference. and i think, um, you know, on some substantive issues as norm suggested, there can be some problems. and i'm not sure that boehner has committed himself as strongly as speaker dennis hastert did to the idea that you can't -- he won't bring forward anything that's not supported by a majority in the majority party. but he hasn't brought many things forward like that, and i don't sense him, you know, look -- there just aren't many moderate democrats, and there's some republicans that are open to some of
can you comment on any sort of moderate organization to help boehner in the house? >> well, norm mentioned earlier the, you know, a couple moderates that got elected, but the number of -- what were there, 44 or something blue dog, and rahm emanuel did a brilliant job of recruiting many house, purportedly moderate democrats who were elect inside 2006 and 2008. they're almost all gone. and, you know, the rules of the house tend to give control to the leadership of the majority party as long...
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he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track. it is a very dramatic story, and it brings to the fore the issues that we're going to be dealing with in three or four months. yes. >> you may have already allude today this somewhat in answering a previous question, but, you know, congressional approval is at record lows, and people left, right, center, everywhere talk about how broken government is. and what are those things there your perspective that have broken it, and what are those things that if they were removed either individual or structural, um, that would help fix it? what's the path forward? >> you know, that's abov
he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track....
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it's not necessarily the house's fault, although you could talk about boehner in some sense, but the supercommittee to me is emblematic of the biggest failure. the assumption behind it was if we dispense with all democratic process and accountability and meet in secret, maybe then we'll have bipartisanship in progress. maybe that's how we should deal with all of the most difficult problems rolled uppingping toge. and that's how we summarized it at the time. we worked on the supercommittee transparency act to try to beat the thing back. it was really a deeply us frustrating thing. hopefully, that never comes up as a good idea because i think it was terrible. on top of that, though, i think the supercommittee made it clear that some of the terms defined in the house and senate rules are not defined well enough. so the supercommittee was able to say that their meetings were public because when they were meeting for ten hours a day in the cdc visitor' center, it wasn't a meeting because they weren't voting when it was, obviously, a meeting. every journalist basically said, this is crazy.
it's not necessarily the house's fault, although you could talk about boehner in some sense, but the supercommittee to me is emblematic of the biggest failure. the assumption behind it was if we dispense with all democratic process and accountability and meet in secret, maybe then we'll have bipartisanship in progress. maybe that's how we should deal with all of the most difficult problems rolled uppingping toge. and that's how we summarized it at the time. we worked on the supercommittee...
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is still going to be a need next year, say march, to increase the debt limit and that was what john boehner used as is leverage a year-and-a-half ago in his talks with president obama so there's a belief on the part of democrats that they would like to get this idea in common circulation and also trying to manufacture some dialogue, the debt ceiling really isn't the kind of leverage that it was a year-and-a-half ago. you saw some of that from the president yesterday when he was talking more last week when he was talking about he is not going to play that game anymore. and then it turns out the democrats had enough votes, if it were to be put to a majority vote to pass it through the senate and instead, senator mcconnell insisted that it requires 60 to get past the filibuster. >> on the republican side how would they vote on the fiscal cliff for raising the debt ceiling help the gop make their case? >> guest: i am not sure it would, in all honesty. a lot of people, politically, don't know how effective it would be. >> any indication how things are going, how things are going behind-the-scene
is still going to be a need next year, say march, to increase the debt limit and that was what john boehner used as is leverage a year-and-a-half ago in his talks with president obama so there's a belief on the part of democrats that they would like to get this idea in common circulation and also trying to manufacture some dialogue, the debt ceiling really isn't the kind of leverage that it was a year-and-a-half ago. you saw some of that from the president yesterday when he was talking more...
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and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship than for you? >> caller: no, absolutely none. then when he left the stage and was walking off, the man -- i feel bad for him that he just can't get it together -- he grabbed ahold of the flag. he was falling. then he grabbed ahold of low wall and at that point i said uh oh that man needs to go home. he's too old to be there. he doesn't do his job and is collecting a big paycheck. >> host: we covered that news conference. you probably watched it on c-span, go over to the site, c-span.org if you want to watch the entire press conference with senate majority leader harry reid. on facebook here
and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship...
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there are two questions with john boehner. number one, is he temperamentally the temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he gets major concessions from the president. i think, in my gut the answer is yes. the second question, can he bring in -- he has a couple of the leading tea party members in the house republican majority but that caucus is still as conservatives as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us, immigration with the president moving ahead very quickly. i would say the 10-1 deal that every republican presidential candidate said they would not except may not be 10-1. it will be a deal where republicans get 80% of what they want. the question is can they say yes to 80% of what they want? the final one is the supreme court, especially what happens if antonin scalia or anthony kennedy retired. forget ruth bader ginsburg and let's just see what happens even if there is a mainstream nominee, or what is president obama -- names the first asia
there are two questions with john boehner. number one, is he temperamentally the temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he gets major concessions from the president. i think, in my gut the answer is yes. the second question, can he bring in -- he has a couple of the leading tea party members in the house republican majority but that caucus is still as conservatives as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us,...
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talk to john boehner and see what he would agree to. but there will be no logical appropriations process with respect to those issues in the lame duck. >> thanks. i was wondering who was among the first of the cabinet secretaries that will be asked to leave the administration? [laughter] >> i will defer to my democratic colleague. [laughter] i have some nominations. [laughter] >> i don't know what the plan is. usually in most administrations people kind of offer their resignation en masse and let the president figure out if there's any of them that they really gotta hang on to. my sense is a lot of the folks have already said they're leaving, so that probably will take place. but that's all i know. >> just to follow up on that, though, given the fiscal cliff and everything that's going on and the uncertainty, is there a need to provide some clarity at least on the treasury secretary appointment sooner rather than later? >> yes. yes. >> couldn't hurt. >> that's easy. [laughter] >> how soon though? >> tomorrow. [laughter] >> the markets a
talk to john boehner and see what he would agree to. but there will be no logical appropriations process with respect to those issues in the lame duck. >> thanks. i was wondering who was among the first of the cabinet secretaries that will be asked to leave the administration? [laughter] >> i will defer to my democratic colleague. [laughter] i have some nominations. [laughter] >> i don't know what the plan is. usually in most administrations people kind of offer their...
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or two questions that john boehner. number one, ac temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he is major concessions president. i think you might get the answer is yes. at least the second second question. can he bring his caucus along? a couple of the leading tea party members of the house republican maturity would see this, but the caucus is still as conservative as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us. immigration for the president is going to move ahead very quick we. i see the tender when deal that every republican presidential candidate said they would not accept. it may not be tender one. 41 or 51, the republicans get at least 80% of what they want. the question is can they say yes to 80% of what they want? the final one is the supreme court. especially what happens if antonin scalia or anthony kennedy retire? forget ruth bader ginsburg. lusciously what happened even if there's a mainstream nominee what if president obama names the f
or two questions that john boehner. number one, ac temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he is major concessions president. i think you might get the answer is yes. at least the second second question. can he bring his caucus along? a couple of the leading tea party members of the house republican maturity would see this, but the caucus is still as conservative as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us....
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the essence of it that secretary geithner, the secretary of the treasury, met with i guess speaker boehner and this is an outline of the president's deficit reduction plan. this is what they are proposing to do. it started off a few weeks ago at $1.6 trillion in new taxes, now we're talking about $1.4 trillion, i understand. that's the latest iteration of the tax increases. 1,400 billion dollars in tax increases. well, where will that money go? and will it change the debt course of america? will it put us on a sound path? can we go home at night and say wow, i'm glad they finally got their act together and put this business on the road? well, let's examine what they're proposing. they're proposing to spend above the b.c.a., the budget control act limits that i just talked about. they have certain limits, includes the sequester. those limits are in law. the law will have to be changed and if a president propose to change the law, and to eliminate 12 hundreds billion cuts. that's 60% of the cuts that were agreed to when we raised the debt ceiling $2.1 trillion. wipe out 60% of them, just lik
the essence of it that secretary geithner, the secretary of the treasury, met with i guess speaker boehner and this is an outline of the president's deficit reduction plan. this is what they are proposing to do. it started off a few weeks ago at $1.6 trillion in new taxes, now we're talking about $1.4 trillion, i understand. that's the latest iteration of the tax increases. 1,400 billion dollars in tax increases. well, where will that money go? and will it change the debt course of america?...
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third two questions that john boehner. number one, is he temperamentally willing to go in legislate, especially if he gets major concessions from the president. i think it and i got the answer is yes. that leads to the second question. can he bring his caucus along? yes, couple of leading tea party members of the house republicans majority were defeated, at the caucuses as conservative as it was before last night. i don't know the answer, we have tissues that could really divide us. immigration come or the president is going to move ahead very quickly. i did attend the wednesday one deal every republican presidential candidate said they would not accept. it may not be tenderloin. maybe four to one or 51, the republicans get at least 80% of what they want. the question is can they say yes to 80% of what they want? the final one is the supreme court. especially, what happens if antonin scalia or anthony kennedy retires? forget ruth bader ginsburg. they should see what happens, even if there's a mainstream nominee. or what if
third two questions that john boehner. number one, is he temperamentally willing to go in legislate, especially if he gets major concessions from the president. i think it and i got the answer is yes. that leads to the second question. can he bring his caucus along? yes, couple of leading tea party members of the house republicans majority were defeated, at the caucuses as conservative as it was before last night. i don't know the answer, we have tissues that could really divide us. immigration...
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i can't predict how they'll be a john boehner. if the democrats pick up a lot of seeds and get this to be pretty close, boehner certainly could be in trouble. tom would be more -- >> i think you'll be fine. >> first of all, are you convinced both seek reelection? >> i don't know. i have not talked to her about that. i simply don't know. if the democrats close this thing, close this gap pretty substantially, my guess is that she does try to stay around for another run. if in fact democrats don't pick up, then i'll probably would be a lot of a lot of interest and that the democratic caucus and have a different leadership. but she is turning out to be exactly the right leader interestingly enough in this election. the republicans made her the issue in the 2010 election and i think in seats were running against her. but she's been exactly the right person for the 2012 election because she's a great fundraiser. she's enthusiastic and his cat democrats in the game. it was the right decision for her to stay after the 2010 election. i'll
i can't predict how they'll be a john boehner. if the democrats pick up a lot of seeds and get this to be pretty close, boehner certainly could be in trouble. tom would be more -- >> i think you'll be fine. >> first of all, are you convinced both seek reelection? >> i don't know. i have not talked to her about that. i simply don't know. if the democrats close this thing, close this gap pretty substantially, my guess is that she does try to stay around for another run. if in...
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we need speaker boehner to actually bring it to a vote. it means standing up for american jobs when china cheats. without aggressive enforce many of trade law, this unlevel playing field will cost hundreds of thousands of american jobs. it is born from the realization that the stakes are too high for our workers, our manufacturers, our economy if we don't fight back. we need an all-hands-on-deck approach at the u.s. trade represent, at the department of state, at the department of commerce to be involved in more aggressive, especially by initiating more trade actions. we know that our trade actions stablize -- we know that our actions stablize the auto industry. we know that enforcement of trade law transplates into steel jobs and paper jobs and tire jobs and other jobs. we know it's time to continue fighting for and investing in american manufacturing. thank you, mr. president. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. br
we need speaker boehner to actually bring it to a vote. it means standing up for american jobs when china cheats. without aggressive enforce many of trade law, this unlevel playing field will cost hundreds of thousands of american jobs. it is born from the realization that the stakes are too high for our workers, our manufacturers, our economy if we don't fight back. we need an all-hands-on-deck approach at the u.s. trade represent, at the department of state, at the department of commerce to...
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then, how speaker john boehner contains for mitt romney in new hampshire. that is followed by a former president bill clinton campaigning for obama in las vegas. >> 13 years ago today, c-span radio was created by the cable tv industry is another way to access our public affairs programming. you can listen to c-span radio in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm. on xm satellite radio, channel 119, were online at c-span radio.org. now, you can listen on your smart phone with the same c-span radio app for iphone, blackberry and android devices. >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal", look at the upcoming presidential debate. our guest is frank donatelli. chairman of the a group that trains republican candidates for office. in the video of mitt romney talking about the 47% of americans that mr. romney says don't pay taxes. and we will get medicare's growing costs with emily etheridge, a health care reporter from rational quarterly. "washington journal" is live everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> will do with the president obama did for the bu
then, how speaker john boehner contains for mitt romney in new hampshire. that is followed by a former president bill clinton campaigning for obama in las vegas. >> 13 years ago today, c-span radio was created by the cable tv industry is another way to access our public affairs programming. you can listen to c-span radio in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm. on xm satellite radio, channel 119, were online at c-span radio.org. now, you can listen on your smart phone with the same...
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the farmer has to say call john boehner because we don't know. the house failed to pass the major legislation. as harry reid said, same was true in postal reform. i called issa in december when we got an agreement from the postmaster general to put off the awesome changes that have to take place in the postal service until we had a chance to do our job, and issa had no interest in it at all. here we are. postal reform, bipartisan, passes the senate, fails in the house of representatives. to date, 30 # senate republicans said let us run the place, show you what happens. well, we've seen what happened under their effort. they've been unable even with the republican controlled house to pass the most basic legislation, postal reform, transportation, farm bill, and even when we gave them a bipartisan bill, it's an indication as majority leader said that if you're only goal is to embarrass and defeat the president, then you are going to ignore the speedometer in congress. that's what's happened time and again through republican leadership in the senate
the farmer has to say call john boehner because we don't know. the house failed to pass the major legislation. as harry reid said, same was true in postal reform. i called issa in december when we got an agreement from the postmaster general to put off the awesome changes that have to take place in the postal service until we had a chance to do our job, and issa had no interest in it at all. here we are. postal reform, bipartisan, passes the senate, fails in the house of representatives. to...
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i hope speaker boehner and soon to be majority leader mcconnell sit down with mitt romney that they have 100 days to reform medicare, reform social security, got to get spending under control, and it can't be like business as usual. they will be tempted to do that. republicans hold meetings and think about it a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform, they have to rebuild the military, get the 313 chips, restore the terrible cuts the put in place. if they do it, democrats screams, the media screams, but the american people applaud and will be rewarded with a long period of time in time and power. if not, we'll go home. mitt romney will have the same problem obama had. he made the same promises. he's got to live up to them, a reform that obama made. i'm hoping that when we gather hen a year from now, that we'll have a set of prompts delivered upon, and maybe a new book. now, one last thing -- [laughter] i said they'd spend $2 billion in search of a million votes. i think the obvious thing is to buy a million copies of "the brief aga
i hope speaker boehner and soon to be majority leader mcconnell sit down with mitt romney that they have 100 days to reform medicare, reform social security, got to get spending under control, and it can't be like business as usual. they will be tempted to do that. republicans hold meetings and think about it a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform, they have to rebuild the military, get the 313 chips, restore the terrible cuts the put...
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remember, congress is controlled as senator harry reid who is a democrat and john boehner, speaker was a a republican president who is a democrat. two out of three seats held by democrats. the only way to get to these big issues is to start with the budget. we propose to do house to badgers and i've been the subject of nasty ad and my willingness to stand up and ring something to the table. there hasn't been a budget in the senate for three and a half years. that is not leadership. >> this is definitely important. the congressman bass wants to talk about the plan and i will let knowledge a broad approach like that is probably the direction we need to go. the reality is he voted for the rhein budget both before simpson/bowles and within 24 hours of the vote and the ryan budget has deep cuts to everything we need to get the economy moving again. education, innovation, infrastructure, roads, bridges, highways, we know how to get the economy going. we know you have to invest in opportunity today for prosperity to miron at the same time the ryan budget is not serious about cutting deficits
remember, congress is controlled as senator harry reid who is a democrat and john boehner, speaker was a a republican president who is a democrat. two out of three seats held by democrats. the only way to get to these big issues is to start with the budget. we propose to do house to badgers and i've been the subject of nasty ad and my willingness to stand up and ring something to the table. there hasn't been a budget in the senate for three and a half years. that is not leadership. >>...
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speaker bane put out the -- speaker boehner is willing to talk, and that's what negotiations are about. i just look at these, the clinton-bush tax cut issues and where you put the rates as a major part of the solution. when you look at the amount of the money you can bring in, and you add that into some of the deductions, but that is a big chunk of change. >> in the press conference, the president left flex the between them. >> they did cross their blackberries, so, you know, clearly, it is showing flexibility which is important. >> this is going to be a congress in which you think we are going, by the end of the year, sorted out the fiscal cliff, confident of that? >> i think we have to sort out part of it with a plan moving forward. i don't think every t will be crossed, but there's doctors reimbursement issues, the estate tax issue to keep exemptions in place where they are now. there are -- there is a number of things that should get done at the end of the year and others extended as long as it's clear there's an end date here, two or three months, whatever we want to do. comprehen
speaker bane put out the -- speaker boehner is willing to talk, and that's what negotiations are about. i just look at these, the clinton-bush tax cut issues and where you put the rates as a major part of the solution. when you look at the amount of the money you can bring in, and you add that into some of the deductions, but that is a big chunk of change. >> in the press conference, the president left flex the between them. >> they did cross their blackberries, so, you know,...
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i think boehner could have a problem but i think it's owing to be more single digits so i don't think we will have a problem at all. >> whoever's the present of the united states will have to do deal with the lame-duck session in congress and we have the fiscal issues. what is likely to happen and let's assume obama is reelected. what do you think will happen at then and let's assume romney selective. what do you think will happen in the lame-duck then? >> so much depends of course on who is elected and what the margin is and who is going to take which senate seat. i see a holding action in the lame-duck with nothing definitive unless the president or mitt romney comes in with a very convincing when and just has the kind of sort of moral authority that comes with a wave election either direction. right now, i don't think we see that. chris said maybe it could happen. no, i'm sorry, mike said maybe it could happen for romney if the stars are in alignment. >> yeah my guess is for all the talk on the fiscal cliff it will be pushed off for six months and in addition if you had a wave elec
i think boehner could have a problem but i think it's owing to be more single digits so i don't think we will have a problem at all. >> whoever's the present of the united states will have to do deal with the lame-duck session in congress and we have the fiscal issues. what is likely to happen and let's assume obama is reelected. what do you think will happen at then and let's assume romney selective. what do you think will happen in the lame-duck then? >> so much depends of course...
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of course boehner had a cigarette and they put the cigarette in the ashtray away from the picture. but they haven't closed the deal on the personal relations and that's a shame. i think somebody said this month during your breakfast, you should sponsor a weekly dinner between obama and honor and everyone would agree to pay for it and let them talk and get to know each other. [inaudible] >> john collingwood. that's right. what do you think? [inaudible] [laughter] >> a special round? well, you know it's a personal relationships, when john was the sba spokesman, he was often not helpful, but you could always talk to him and get him on the phone and if you have a good story, he would confirm it by laughing. a deep laugh that you run the right track. no laughter meant no. >> overlooks lake the tide is going against republicans. >> well, i think in the short political terms, yes. the polling shows republicans will be blamed. but remember, this is the obama era. it's going to go down in his economy. i asked people, who was speaker of the house during the great depression when roosevelt wa
of course boehner had a cigarette and they put the cigarette in the ashtray away from the picture. but they haven't closed the deal on the personal relations and that's a shame. i think somebody said this month during your breakfast, you should sponsor a weekly dinner between obama and honor and everyone would agree to pay for it and let them talk and get to know each other. [inaudible] >> john collingwood. that's right. what do you think? [inaudible] [laughter] >> a special round?...
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if the -- how the republicans will do you john boehner. >> boehner server to be in trouble. tom would be more of -- >> i think you'll be fine. >> are you convinced that pelosi is going to seek reelection speaker is i don't know. i have not talked to her about that. i simply don't know. >> if the democrats close this thing, close this gap pretty substantially, my guess is that she does try to stay around for another run. if, in fact, immigrants don't pick up the seats, then there probably would be a lot of interest inside the democratic caucus having different leadership. but she is turned out to be exactly the right leader, interestingly enough come in this election. the republicans made her an issue during the 2010 election, and i think dean some seats by running against her. but she has been exactly the right person for the 2012 election because she's a great fundraiser. she's enthusiastic and she is kept democrats in the game. so it was the right decision for her to stay out of the 2010 election. the caucus will have to make a decision after the 2012 election in terms of
if the -- how the republicans will do you john boehner. >> boehner server to be in trouble. tom would be more of -- >> i think you'll be fine. >> are you convinced that pelosi is going to seek reelection speaker is i don't know. i have not talked to her about that. i simply don't know. >> if the democrats close this thing, close this gap pretty substantially, my guess is that she does try to stay around for another run. if, in fact, immigrants don't pick up the seats,...